I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.